Improvement in fan attachments for rocking-chairs



WILLIAM H. FLETCHER, Jr.

Improvement in Fan Attachments for Rocking Chairs.

No. 123,626. 7 Patented Feb. 13,-1872.

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IMPROVEMENT lN FAN ATTACHMENTS FQR ROCKlNG-CHAIRS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 123,696, dated February 13, 1872.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM H. FLETCHER, J12, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Fan Attachments for RockingUhairs; and that the following is a full and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon making a part of this specification.

The object of this invention is to attach to rocking-chairs a fan. The invention consists in attaching to rocking-chairs a fan, in such manner as will enable the occupant of the chair to be continuously fanned, if desired, without much exertion, as hereinafter fully described.

In the accompanying sheetof drawinga side elevation of arocking-chair with the fan thereto affixed, is shown.

Similarletters of referenceindicatelike parts in the several figures.

A represents a rcckingchair, which may be of any desired size. Secured to the back thereof are two brackets, 13. Cast with said brackets are two sockets a, into which are fitted the arms 0, supporting, at their upper ends, ashaft, D. To this shaft is affixed a fan, E, which maybe of any desired size or shape, but it is preferably made with four wings. Onto the shaft D are fitted two pulley-wheels b. Passing around these pulley-wheels to two other pulley-wheels c, secured to the side of the brackets 13, are endless cords or belts (1. Secured to the forward ends of the rockers of the chair, and passing under the same, are two fiat springs, F, which maybe made of any desired material. These springs extend back of the rear end of the rockers a short distance. Jointed to the rear ends of the springs are two levers, G, which extend thence upward to the endless cords or belts d, before mentioned, to which the upper ends of said levers are attached in any suitable way.

The fan attachment being constructed and applied as above described to operate the fan, it is simply necessary for the occupant of the chair to produce a rocking motion, when, as the chair is rocked back, the levers G will be forcedup, carrying with them the endless cord or belt (1, which causes the pulley-wheels b to revolve, which will cause the fan E to make one or more revolutions in one direction, and when the chair is rocked forward the levers G are drawn back, and in a similar manner, as above described, the fan E is caused to revolve in a contrary direction, and so on alternately, as the chair is rocked backward and forward. The arms 0 may be set at any desired angle by simply pushing them up or down, they being pivoted at e, and securing them in the required position by means of the set-screw f working into the curved guides g g, and in order to adjust the distance between the pulleys b and 0 to any length of the arms 0, and also as a means of keeping the endless cord or belt (I sufficiently tight, so as to insure the fans revolving, the bearings of the pulleys c are made adjustable, so that, by turning the screws h h in or out, the bearings are shifted and the distance between pulleys b and c lessened or increased.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A rockin g-chair, in combination with a fan and the brackets 13.

2. The combination of a rocking-chair and fan with the springs F and operating levers G, connected directly to the springs.

3. The combination of arocking-chair and springs F with the levers G and brackets B.

4. The adjustable backets B, in combination with the fan E.

IVM. H. FLETCHER, JR.

Witnesses H. L. WATTENBERG, G. M. PLYMPTON. 

